Kano State governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf, has accused the acting National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, of worsening the state’s social security crisis by neglecting to pay over N48 billion in outstanding gratuities and death benefits to pensioners and other beneficiaries, respectively, during his eight-year tenure as governor of the State.
Speaking at the official launch of the third tranche of a N5billion payment of backlog of gratuities and death benefits for retirees at the Government House in Kano on Thursday, Governor Yusuf expressed grave concern over the plight of the state’s pensioners.
Governor Yusuf, in a statement issued by his spokesperson, Sanusi Bature Dawakin-Tofa, revealed that the total outstanding gratuities had accumulated to over N48 billion, a situation he described as “the biggest social security threat ever witnessed since the creation of Kano State in 1967.”
The governor lamented that, under Ganduje’s…
Source: Leadership Newspaper
